Manifesto for a Ludic Century
Eric Zimmerman's manifesto argues that the twenty-first century will be shaped by the rise of games as the core interface for understanding and navigating complex systems in society. This ludic century reframes human interaction with information and reality as fundamentally playful, systemic, and emergent (🜚).
Zimmerman's vision aligns with Stillpoint's exploration of ⟐ - where the boundaries between play, learning, work, and life blur into ongoing cycles of creation and transformation (↻). It highlights how game systems serve as models for complex interconnections in politics, economics, and ecology, inviting a triadic approach - balancing ⊕, ♾, and ∎ - to understand and reimagine the world.
Yet, it also cautions against the seduction of gamified systems as solutions, warning that the apparent clarity of patterns can mask fragmentation (🜃) and impasse (⊘). Stillpoint resonates with this tension, holding the promise and perils of the ludic century in delicate balance.